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Single, and Singular, Women Become Her
In “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” on Broadway, Cherry Jones gets to play yet another strong-willed woman.
 
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Unlikely Path: Carrying Actors From Newcastle
Just as the miners portrayed in “The Pitmen Painters” never stray from their roots, the actors are themselves an unusual example of loyalty and collaboration.
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Theater Review | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up
In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.
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Theater Review | 'It Must Be Him': Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump
In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.
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Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics
For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.
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You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol
Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.
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Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . .
Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.
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After a Cameo on Cable, Jets Hit the Stage
The Jets took in an early private performance of the show “Black Angels Over Tuskegee” on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Theater Review | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View
At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.
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Brendan Fraser to Make Broadway Debut in 'Elling'
Mr. Fraser and Denis O'Hare are set to play a mismatched pair of roommates navigating the shoals of friendship, work, and women
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'Yank!' Won't Reach Broadway This Season
The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.
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'You Can't Take it With You' Revival Off for Fall
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.
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Theater Listings: Sept. 3 — 9
Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.
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Theater Review | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln’s Assassin
In Luigi Creatore’s “Error of the Moon,” the jealous Edwin Booth is partly responsible for John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Lincoln.
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Theater Review | 'Hedda Gabler': An Audience Visits With Hedda Gabler at Home, a Real Home
A site-specific production of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.
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Theater Review | 'All-American Girls': The Big Game Is Coming, but Where’s the Coach?
Layon Gray’s play “All-American Girls” puts together an all-black female baseball team during World War II for a whodunit.
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Theater Review | 'The Memory Show': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key
In “The Memory Show,” the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.
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Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall
The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season.
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A Temple of Drama, Burnished
The Belasco Theater, a Broadway house known for its relative intimacy and its subtly gothic ambience, has been restored to its original grandeur.
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‘Red’ Hot and Staying Cool
The much-praised London theater company Donmar Warehouse, despite the success of its “Red” on Broadway, does not plan to transfer plays willy-nilly to New York.
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Arts, Briefly: Theatrical Spills and Award Thrills
Brooke Shields broke her hand during rehearsals for a show in Los Angeles; the first Horton Foote Prize for playwrights has been awarded for two plays.
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Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes)
Several shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including “Roadkill” and “Sub Rosa,” tinker with the traditional audience construct.
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Arts | New Jersey: ‘Where Broadway Comes Home to Sleep’
Members of Midtown Direct Rep at the South Orange arts center include, at right, Sandy Rustin and Jeremy Dobrish, artistic directors.Show-business people who commute from Manhattan to South Orange and Maplewood have banded together to form a theater company called Midtown Direct Rep.
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Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher Lloyd
Mr. Lloyd brings his “Taxi” and “Back to the Future” sensibility to Arthur Miller’s liked-but-not-well-liked everyman, in Weston, Vt.
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